From hardtack to home fries
Subtitle: an uncommon history of American cooks and meals
By: Barbara Haber.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Diet -- United States -- History; Cookery -- United States -- History; Food habits -- United States -- History
Description: "Barbara Haber, one of America's most respected authorities on the history of food, has spent years excavating fascinating stories of the ways in which meals cooked and served by women have shaped American history. As any cook knows, every meal, and every diet, has a story - whether it relates to presidents and first ladies or to the poorest of urban immigrants. From Hardtack to Home Fries brings together the best and most inspiring of those stories, from the 1840s to the present, focusing on a remarkable assembly of little-known or forgotten Americans who determined what our country ate during some of its most trying periods." "Haber's secret weapon is the cookbook. She unearths cookbooks and menus from rich and poor, urban and rural, long-past and near-present and uses them to answer some fascinating puzzles."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-236) and index.